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  Matthew Lasar

Matthew Lasar

Retired Lecturer on Teaching Recall

831-459-5593

 

Humanities Division

History Department

Retired Lecturer on Teaching Recall

Faculty

Lecturer

History
Politics
World History
United States Politics and Government

Stevenson College Academic Building
280 Stevenson

280 Stevenson College

Winter 2024: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10 am to noon on Zoom. Students welcome! 😎

Stevenson Academic Services

Ph.D, Claremont Graduate School

The United States of America; the Cold War; conspiracies and conspiracy theories.

United States history; world history; history of the Cold War; radio and telecommunications history.

The United States of America; the Cold War; conspiracies and conspiracy theories.

UCSC Excellence in Teaching Award, 2016

  • Radio 2.0: Uploading the First Broadcast Medium, ABC-CLIO Praeger, 2016
  • Uneasy Listening: Pacifica Radio's Civil War, London: Black Apollo Press, 2005.
  • Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999; Robert Dawidoff, series editor; updated edition in paperback, 2000
  • "The Triumph of the Visual: Stages and Cycles in the Pornography Controversy from the McCarthy Era to the Present," The Journal of Policy History, Volume 7, No. 2, 1995.
  • "Pacifica Radio's Crisis of Containment," in McCauley, Artz, Halleck, and Peterson, eds., Public Broadcasting and the Public Interest, New York: M.E. Sharpe, December, 2002.
  • "Right out in public": Pacifica Radio, the Cold War, and the Political Origins of Alternative Media", Pacific Historical Review, Volume 67, Number 4, November 1998.
  • "Hybrid Highbrow: KPFA's Reconstruction of Elite Culture, 1942-1960," The Journal of Radio Studies, Volume 5, Number 1, Winter, 1998.

HIS 10B, The United States of America from the Gilded Age through the Cold War
HIS 110E, What Is a Nation? The U.S. from 1877 to 1914
HIS 110F, The United States from World War I through World War II
HIS 110G, The U.S. after the Second World War
History 117: Global Cold War
History 118a: Conspiracy Planet
History 15: The United States of America

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